Free publicity for your events

You can get free publicity for your community event - just complete the online form on Havering Council’s events web page. There is no charge for this service.

Capella Singers Summer Concert

Friday 24 June, 8pm - 10pm at The Old Chapel, Upminster, St Marys Lane, Upminster RM14 2QR. Admission £10 (summer refreshments included). Book tickets here.

Havering Concert Orchestra

Saturday 25 June, 7.30pm - 9.30pm at Frances Bardsley Academy, Brentwood Road, Romford RM1 2RR, Rousing music for a summer evening with a US theme. Book tickets here

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Romford and District Historical Society

Monday 27 June, 8pm - 9.30pm at myplace, 343 Dagnam Park Drive, Harold Hill, RM3 9EN. Talk on The Kennington's Mammoth by Susan Yates. Get more details here.

Events at Havering Museum

Havering Museum, 19-21 High Street, Romford,  RM1 1JU.

Reminiscence at Havering Museum

Admission £3, includes entry to the Museum and refreshments. Sessions take place from 1.30pm to 3.30 pm. Bring your photographs and memories to share or just come to listen to others. All are welcome at these friendly sessions.

Variety Club

At each event attendees will either  learn a new skill, listen to a talk or get involved in an activity which the club members have asked for. If you would like to join the Variety Club email Ellen Owen.

Shirley Tours

Shirley organises a variety of outings, events and short breaks - there’s something for everyone and it’s all in a good cause. All profits made are distributed between two local schools, Hall Mead School and James Oglethorpe School, as well as All Saints Church, in Cranham and 1st Cranham Scout Group. More information at Shirley Tours.

Become a Community Health Champion

If you are interested in promoting good health and wellbeing, are a Havering resident or work in the Borough then you can become a Community Health Champion.

The role is a voluntary one and health champions are only expected to engage with friends, neighbours, work colleagues and anyone else they come into regular contact with. Email for more details.

Havering Group Diabetes UK

The Havering Group Diabetes UK meets at North Street Hall, North Street, Hornchurch, RM11 1QX on the third Monday of each month at 8pm, for support, information or advice. The meeting hosts a speaker on a medical topic, everyone is welcome.

Parkinson’s UK (Havering and District Branch)

Parkinson’s UK (Havering and District Branch) holds regular meetings on the first Tuesday of every month, from 2pm - 4pm, at Langtons House, Billet Lane, Hornchurch, RM11 1XJ.  For more information email Brenda Crissell.

Men’s walking football

Walking football is a slower paced version of the beautiful game, aimed at men who are keen to keep an active lifestyle despite their age or ability. £3 per session. Booking is required. For more information email Stuart Robinson.

• Mondays 12noon, YMCA, Rush Green Road, Romford RM7 0PH
• Thursdays 7pm, Abbs Cross Health and Fitness, Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch, RM12 4YB

Health and Wellbeing in Havering

This monthly email update has information from Havering Council, Havering Clinical Commissioning Group and Queen's Hospital.

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New Information hub

Working on behalf of Havering Council, Family Mosaic provide a free information and guidance service, Care Point, for residents in Havering.

Our service provides free, confidential information to anyone over the age of 18 on your social care circumstances, wellbeing, benefits, transport options, housing and your rights as a carer. We’ll also help support you to find the services available in your area that may be able to support you.

You can drop in and have a chat with one of our advisors at any one of our locations. You can find us in Romford Market, myplace Youth Centre or Holgate House, Romford. Or you can visit us at one of our drop-in’s across the borough.

Havering Citizens Advice opening times

Havering Citizens Advice Bureau in Victoria Road, Romford has changed its opening hours and services from Friday 1 April.

More details here.. 

Hornchurch Library – Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10am - 2pm

Harold Hill Library – Monday, 10am - 2pm

South Hornchurch Library – alternate Tuesdays, 10am - 2pm (please ring 01708 763531 to check service)

Orchard Village Estate Office – Monday, 10am - 2pm

More information available here.

Ipad for Beginners Classes

Ardleigh House offer a wide range of computer classes at Ardleigh House Community Association, 42 Ardleigh Green Road, Hornchurch, RM11 2LG, mainly for the older person. These classes run for 90 minutes each on Monday to Friday between 9am and 3pm. All classes are tutor led in a relaxing environment, there are no exams and no pressures, the classes are structured to instruct and yet be fun. The autumn term timetable can be seen here.

Cycling taster days

Thames Chase Forest Centre, Pike Lane, Upminster, RM14 3NS.

Check here for details of cycling taster days for those who have not cycled for a while or would like to try cycling for the first time. Included in the cost will be tea or coffee and a piece of cake in our Forest Café. We have a wide variety of cycles, including trikes, come and have a go.

If you cannot make these dates but would like to try our cycles you can hire cycles at weekends and school holidays until Monday 31 October. 

Making Connections Club

Every Monday 11am - 2pm, over 60s group at Upminster Baptist Church, Springfield Gardens, Upminster, RM14 3EH.

Transport and lunch is available if required.  To book a place or for more details call 01708 796611.

Weekly Art Classes (Painting and Drawing)

Mondays 1.30pm – 3.30pm at Friends Meeting House, 7 Balgores Crescent, Gidea Park, RM2 6AB. Weekly Art Classes (Painting and Drawing), with all levels of experience welcome, including beginners. Classes are facilitated by professional practicing artist. £5 per class. Email Class Facilitator Michael Murphy (BA Hons) for more details.

Squirrels Heath Gardening Club

Meetings/outings. Speakers and coach trips for enthusiastic gardeners. Membership £5 per year plus £1.50 for meetings

Meet every month on the last Monday, 8 - 10pm, at Gidea Park Methodist Church, 398 Brentwood Road, (Drill Roundabout), Romford, RM2 6DH. Email for more information.

Harold Wood Bridge Club

This club is looking for new players to join the Bridge Club on Wednesdays and Friday afternoons and Thursday evenings at Harold Wood Neighbourhood Centre, The Old School, Gubbins Lane, Romford RM3 0QA. 

Contact Ron Lockhart for more details.

Wednesday Club

Every Wednesday (during term time) 1.30pm - 3pm¸ Ardleigh House Community Association, 42 Ardleigh Green Road, Hornchurch, RM11 2LG. Get more information by email.

Sewing Class

Join us for an adults’ sewing class on Wednesday evenings, 7pm - 9pm at Elm Park Tuition Centre, 8 The Broadway, Hornchurch, RM12 4RS. Email here for more details.

Charity Yoga

First Sunday of each month, 10.30am – noon free yoga in Raphael Park Bandstand, Main Road, Gidea Park, Romford.

Donations invited in aid of First Step Opportunity.

Knit and Craft Club

The Four Seasons Knitting and Craft Club meets every Monday 7 - 10pm at Rush Green Community Association and Social Club, Rush Green Gardens, Rush Green Road, Romford, RM7 0LB. If you knit, crochet, or machine knit, come along and we will make you welcome.

Techy Teas

First Thursday of the month 10.30am -12.30pm at Upminster Library, 26 Corbets Tey Road, Upminster, RM14 2BB

Come along to one of our free sessions and learn how to use the full potential of your laptop, mobile phone or tablet at one of our Techy Teas sessions. An active Havering Library card is required.

Tapestry Pub Clubs

Enjoy a good meal, a drink and a great laugh? Then come along to one of our Pub Clubs!

Pub Clubs offer the chance for local residents to meet new people in a cheerful setting, have a good laugh, and enjoy some hearty pub grub. Our clubs are held once a month from noon - 2pm on:

First Tuesday, The Bull, 74-76 Market Place, Romford, RM1 3ER

First Thursday, The Tollgate, High Road, Chadwell Heath, RM6 6QT

Second Wednesday, The Albion, Rainham Road, Rainham, RM13 8SS

Third Tuesday, The Village, Station Lane, Hornchurch, RM12 6NA

Last Wednesday, The Golden Crane, 117 Avon Road, Cranham, Upminster, RM14 1RQ

Book your place by email. 

Discovering Thames Chase

Coffee morning

Second Friday of each month, 10.30am - noon

Cream tea

Third Friday of each month, 2.30pm - 4.30pm. Book places by email.

Community market

Third Sunday of each month, 10am - 2pm. Find out more by email.

Harold Hill Seniors Club

Social group for the over 60s, every Tuesday, 1pm - 3pm at myplace, 343 Dagnam Park Drive, Harold Hill, RM3 9EN . Further details available here.

Nordic walking

This fun exercise takes place at Thames Chase Community Forest each Saturday, 10.15am - 11am. Find out more about Nordic Walking. 

Caligraphy and crafts

Meet on Tuesday mornings at Fairkytes Arts Centre, 51 Billet Lane, Hornchurch, RM11 1AX.  For the over 60s.  For more details call 01708 222365.

Social Hub

The Silver Linx Social Hub meets every Monday between 10am and 2pm at Salvation Army, High Street, Romford, RM1 1JJ.

Sunday stroll at Rainham Marshes

Join one of our experts to discover the wonderful wildlife on the reserve. This is the perfect opportunity to improve your identification skills, meet like-minded people and walk off that Sunday lunch. Takes place every Sunday 1pm - 3.30pm. No need to book.

Meet at RSPB Rainham Marshes, New Tank Hill Road, Purfleet, RM19 1SZ. Admission £5 (£4 RSPB members). For more information email Rainham Marshes.

Sunday night live….

Sunday Night Live Upminster, Costa Coffee, 34 Station Road, Upminster, RM14 2TR, second Sunday of every month 5.30pm - 7.15pm. Host: Kevin Nichols 07876 682402.

Sunday Night Live Romford, Costa Coffee, The Brewery, Romford, RM1 1AU, second Sunday of every month at 5.30pm. Host: Justin Lewis 07877 843060.

A stitch in time

The In Stitches sewing group meets every Thursday from 10am - noon at Harold Hill Library, Hilldene Avenue, Harold Hill, RM3 8DJ and at Hornchurch Library, 44 North Street, Hornchurch, RM11 1TB every Tuesday from 2.30pm.

Techy Teas

Learn how to use the full potential of your laptop, mobile phone or tablet at one of our Techy Teas sessions. The first Thursday of the month 10.30am  -12.30pm atUpminster Library, 26 Corbets Tey Road, Upminster RM14 2BB. An active Havering Library card is required. Email Upminster Library for more information.

Musical Theatre over 50’s workout

Shake off those Wednesday blues with 45 minutes of dance workout to your favourite show tunes.  Wednesdays 10-11am Queens Theatre, Billet Lane, Hornchurch RM11 1QT. Tickets £5.  Advance booking is recommended.

Growing Friends over 50’s club

Growing Friends, an over 50's club, is held on the first Wednesday of each month in the garden at Bedford’s Park Walled Garden, Broxhill Road, Vyner Street, Havering-atte-Bower,  RM14 1QH. More information is available by emailing Kirsty.

Havering Over-50s Forum

Havering Over-50s Forum is a non-political organisation that offers a platform where the over 50s can find information and raise issues which are of concern to them.

The Forum is open to Havering residents.  The first monthly meeting is free, then £5 annually. Meetings are usually on the second Tuesday of each month from 10.30am to 12.30pm in the Council Chamber, Havering Town Hall, Main Road, Romford, RM1 3BD.  For more information email.

The William and Jane Morris Fund (UK)

The William and Jane Morris Fund is open to applications from churches, chapels and other places of worship built before 1896.

The Fund offers grants of between £500 - £3,000 towards work concerned with the conservation of decorative features such as:

• Stained glass windows
• Sculpture
• Furniture
• Internal monuments and tombs
• Wall paintings; etc.

The decorative feature, monument, etc must be dated before 1896 (the date of William Morris's death). Deadline for applications is Wednesday 31 August 2016. Get more details here.

The Leche Trust (UK)

The Leche Trust is a grant making charity that provides funding to UK registered charities, public authorities or institutions in the following areas:

• Historic buildings - the repair and conservation of buildings, artefacts and important historic gardens of the Georgian period or earlier
• Church furnishings - the conservation of church features and furnishings of the Georgian and earlier periods, including monuments, tombs, wall paintings, historically-important glass, and furniture and fittings such as pulpits, fonts and pews
• Museums and other institutions with historic collections - the conservation and acquisition of items for historic collections, with preference given to objects of the Georgian period or earlier
• Arts - projects that promote excellence in professional performance in music, dance and theatre, with particular emphasis on new works.

Deadline for applications is Saturday 20 August 2015. Get more details here.

The Rank Foundation – Small Appeals Programme (UK)

UK registered charities and recognised churches which are raising money for capital projects (building work, refurbishment or the purchase of long-term equipment) or a one-off short term activity (such as an annual respite break or holiday for disadvantaged young people) can apply for funding through the Rank Foundation - Small Appeals programme.

To be eligible to apply the total project cost must be less than £1 million, the organisation must have an annual income of less than £500,000 and the organisation applying must already have raised a third of the total costs.

Applications can be submitted at any time. Get more details here.

Funding for Christian Charities promoting social inclusion (UK)

The Anchor Foundation provides grants of between £500 and £10,000 per year to Christian Charities that encourage social inclusion through ministries of healing and the arts.

Funding can be awarded for up to three years. The Foundation will consider applications for either capital or revenue funding. Only in exceptional circumstances will grants be given for building work:

The next application deadline is Sunday 31 July 2016.

ChurchCare - grants for fabric repairs

The Church of England of England has announced that the next deadline for applications to its ChurchCare - Grants for Fabric Repairs is Monday 12 September 2016.